Hello all
Hopefully someone can help me with an issue i’m facing since a few weeks with my shelly motion sensors.
I have a couple of these shelly motion sensors (1st gen) connected to home assistant via CoIoT.
For more than a year everything was working perfect, but all of a sudden the battery of ALL the sensors are draining super fast (max 3 days).
Before they lasted more than three months.
I didn’t change anything in the configuration.
I did update home assistant (both core (2023.5.2) and OS (10.1)) and shelly devices, as I always do when a new version is available.
Is it possible that this behaviour is caused by an update?
Is someone else facing this issue?
Thanks in advance for your help!
Kind regards
S
The problem probably isn’t with one of the Shellys if they suddenly all exhibit the same problem at the same time. What changed in the environment - that would be the key?
Thanks for your reply @KruseLuds.
I don’t think any structural changes have happened, at least not that I know of.
Let me know what have you found. I have exactly the same problem. I purchased my sensor nearly 2 years ago and no issues. A couple of weeks ago the battery was getting critical so I removed it, charged and the only change I made (stupid me) is to upgrade the firmware on them - I will see if I can find the old firmware somewhere and test that. Now the battery lasts between a couple of days and a couple of weeks.
Until today I unfortunately haven’t found a solution.
I am not sure that the firmware version of the shelly motion sensors are causing this issue.
I have 6 sensors in total and all of these are on version 20220811-152232/v2.1.8@5afc928c.
Recently i have noticed that one of the sensors all of a suddon is not facing this issue anymore.
The battery is still 100% and it has already been a month since I charged it…
What version does your motion sensor(s) have?
The only difference between this sensor and the others may be the wi-fi range.
Could the wi-fi coverage be causing this?
To rule this out, I will move one of the sensors to a location where I am sure there is good coverage and keep you informed.
I have ruled out FW issues by downgrading it to various previous versions and it made no difference.
I have now a ticket opened with Shelly Support - I will update the thread if there is a solution.
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Any update on changing a wireless access point to be closer? Was it the wifi trying to connect that was draining it? Have you folks gone into the web interface for the devioces and set their connections to eco mode and made the connection either coloit or outbound websockets as well (both of which resolved some intermittent connectivity issues I used to have with relays - I do not have any shelly motion sensors - yet)?
Not really…
I moved one of the sensors to a location which i am sure the Wi-Fi coverage is good (+/- -50dbm) and at the first week or so the battery stayed at 99%, which i a lot better than before, but than all of a suddon the battery started draining fast again, and again without changing anything.
Strange…
I must conclude that poor wifi isn’t the main reason either.
I suppose you mean coiot in stead of coloit? I do use coiot to connect to Home Assistant.
As far as I know, there is no eco mode option available.
Yes I meant coiot. You have a ghost in your home and the motion sensors are getting confused because of it
Hi,
I have the same battery drain issue on Shelly motion 2.
I haven’t updated HA in a long time.
Was this a HA issue?
And is it gone in newer releases?
Make sure the motion 2 also has the latest firmware - and you can adjust the sensitivity
It does have latest firmware now, and the sensitivity adjust does not help.
Battery used to last for months, now a week maybe.
How often is it triggered?